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1. IPV6 is _____ on Windows 2000
Shaking (quickly dragging back and forth) a window minimizes all other windows. Shaking it again brings them back.
Boot Configuration Database - Boot Configuration Data (BCD) files provide a store that is used to describe boot applications and boot application settings. The objects and elements in the store effectively replace Boot.ini.
It operates by deploying a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 as a host in the branch office. Clients are configured with the fully qualified domain name of the host computer so that they can retrieve content from the Hosted Cache - when
Not supported

2. What does Microsoft Transform files (MST) do?
Increase the minimum size of your paging file. Windows sets the initial minimum size of the paging file equal to the amount of random access memory (RAM) installed on your computer plus 300 megabytes (MB) - and the maximum size equal to three times t
Modify the service startup to automatic and also enable the proper NAP enforcement client (DHCP - EAP - RDGATEWAY - IPSEC).Configured for manual start by default.
Modifies the installation of a Windows Installer Package (.MSI) and can be invoked with MSIEXEC.EXE
Windows PE and Windows.old.

3. What does DISM do?
It can enable a windows feature on an offline image with the /Enable-Feature option
Vista SP1 and Server 2008 and above.
If your computer is running slowly or isn't working properly - you can use System Restore to return your computer's system files and settings to an earlier point in time using a restore point. For more information about System Restore - see System Re
Specify this file with both the ScanState and LoadState commands to migrate user folders - files - and file types to computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7.

4. What dows Windows Anytime Upgrade do?
A .WFW file
You can upgrade to a more advanced edition of Windows 7—say from Home Premium to Ultimate and take advantage of extra features while keeping your current programs - files - and settings intact.
Use the DHCPv6 to obtain both IPV6 addresses and additional configuration settings.
Use dnscmd /recorddelete

5. How can you disable IPV6 from OSs that cant be uninstalled?
Some information—such as cookies and temporary Internet files—so that the webpages you visit will work correctly. However - at the end of your InPrivate Browsing session - this information is discarded.
Run slmgr.vbs -ato and then open up 3389 on windows firewall using netsh.
Creates a bootable CD that runs the Windows Recovery Environment (WRE)
Uncheck IPV6 from the network properties.

6. What does Scanstate /GENMIGXML do?
A CA users trust or they will get error messages when trying to securely access a web site. They can avoid the error by installing the CA certificate to the Trusted Root Certificate Store.
It backs up digitally identities to a password protected file.
Client computers must be running Windows 7 - with the BranchCache feature enabled. Web servers file servers must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 - with the BranchCache feature enabled.
It create a report of which files will be migrated

7. How do you test the ip connectivity on IPV6?
By caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files (CSC) cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client (cache) after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.
Ping the Link Local Address (FE80 Address)
Generates a space-estimate file called Usmtsize.txt. This option does not collect the user state. You must also specify /nocompress.
Clients establish an IPsec tunnel for the IPv6 traffic to the DirectAccess server - which acts as a gateway to the intranet. The DirectAccess client establishes two IPsec tunnels: Psec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) tunnel and IPsec ESP tunnel.

8. How do you review files in the Offline Files Cache?
They relay the status on polices to the Security center for NAP to validate the system to use the network.
By caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files (CSC) cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client (cache) after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.
Use SYNC Center
It is a security component that enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators - called standard users in Windows 7 - and as administrators without having to switch users - log off - or use Run As.

9. How do you create a custom Windows PE image that supports windows scripting host?
Cannot be in different domains
It insert drivers into the Windows Driver Store so that users can add the associated PNP hardware without having to provide the driver or administrator credentials
Can be used to create virtual hard disks
Modify the PE image using DISM by adding the WINPE-Scripting package to BOOT.WIM

10. What is a NAT forwarding?
By caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files (CSC) cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client (cache) after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.
Add an AD integrated zone
A user to submit a print job to a printer and manage their own print jobs through the "Manage Documents" permission granted to the Creator Owners Group. If you grant a user "Manage Documents" - then they can manage ALL jobs submitted to that printer.
A type of port forwarding that allows public network computers on a Private network through nat devises.

11. Why is PKi needed to encypt vpn traffic?
Use SYNC Center
Use the Import Foreign Disk option on the target computer
They relay the status on polices to the Security center for NAP to validate the system to use the network.
L2TP uses IPSEC to encrypt VPN traffic - PKI is needed to issue certificates that are required by IPSEC.

12. What does sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:sysprep.xml?
IPV4 and IPV6
Only Business Track Windows 7 editions (Professional - Enterprise - Ultimate).
A collection of logs created by computers fowarding events. Viewed on the collecting computer.
The system will shut down. The next time you start this system (after cloning it) - it will install with the settings in the XML file. The Computer Name will be automatically generated.

13. What is DiskPart?
So the downstream servers can recieve its approved updates via parent server. This allows multiple points of deployment. Downstream servers also can be delegated the permission to approve their own updates
They are AAAA records.
You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent unallocated space on the same disk. To extend a basic volume - it must be raw or formatted with the NTFS file system.
A text-mode command interpreter that enables you to manage objects (disks - partitions - or volumes) by using scripts or direct input at a command prompt.

14. What is jetpack.exe?
The command used to preform an offline defrag. Example: jetpack DHCP.mdb temp.mdb
If your computer is running slowly or isn't working properly - you can use System Restore to return your computer's system files and settings to an earlier point in time using a restore point. For more information about System Restore - see System Re
Hovering over a taskbar icon shows thumbnail of that program. Hovering over the thumbnail shows a preview of that program in full view. Aero Peek also refers to the "Show desktop" button to the far right of the new taskbar.
By caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files (CSC) cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client (cache) after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.

15. What does the WSUS DB Store?
Use it to can backup certificates to a .PFX file that is password protected.
WSUS server configuration information - Metadata describing what each update is for - and general information about clients - updates and interaction.
To perform very fast searches of the most common files on your computer. The easiest way to add something to the index is to include a folder in a library. When you do that - the content in that folder is automatically indexed.
Configure the enforcement points as RADIUS clients.

16. What does System Protection cover?
It can speed up your computer by using storage space on most USB flash drives and flash memory cards. ReadyBoost is designed to help when your PC's memory is running low. Low memory can make your computer sluggish because Windows - which needs a plac
It lets you launch process on a remote machine via command line. Example: winrs -r:(remotehost) ipconfig /all
Use dnscmd /zonerefresh.
System Restore Points as well as Previous Versions of Files (configured through the System applet).

17. What does AppLocker allows you to generate default rules for?
Windows 7 Professional.
One of the tunnels if DirectAccess by using both a computer certificate and user credentials. This tunnel authenticates the user and provides access to intranet resources and application servers.
Each of the rule types. For example - the default rules for Executables are: Allow members of the local Administrators group to run all applications - Allow members of the Everyone group to run applications that are located in the Windows folder - Al
Specify this file with both the ScanState and LoadState commands to migrate user folders - files - and file types to computers running Windows Vista or Windows 7.

18. What are hard disk quotas?
An authentication method that completes user authentication before you establish a full Remote Desktop connection and the logon screen appears. This can help protect the remote computer from hackers and malicious software.
Add an AD integrated zone
they are enforced and will not allow a user to exceed the space limit.
Deploy a secondary zone.

19. What is another way to deploy an application compatibility database across multiple computers?
It lets you launch process on a remote machine via command line. Example: winrs -r:(remotehost) ipconfig /all
By coping the application compatibility database to a network location and run a logon script that includes SDBInst on each computer - specifying the UNC path of the file.
The first time a user opens a file in a shared folder - Windows 7 reads the file from the server and then stores it in a cache on the computer's hard disk drive. The second and subsequent times a user reads the same file - Windows 7 retrieves the cac
A scheduled task that runs by default collecting information for the Reliability monitor. If disabled it must reenabled manually from the task scheduler mmc snapin.

20. What is a ESP?
Create a Custom Rule. By default Predefined Firewall Rules apply to all computers sending network traffic.
Encapsulating Security payload protocol used for encryption the packets created by the AH.
Use IPV6 Unique Local Addresses.
Sent across the network

21. Does Windows 7 does have an email client like Outlook Express or Windows Mail?
Updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR. You can use this tool to restore the boot sector on your computer. This tool replaces FixFAT and FixNTFS.
A network location.
By running the Update Status summary report.
No

22. What has Windows 7 modified in searching?
Enabled searching for content on remote locations right from the Explorer itself. Integrating federated search into Windows gives users the benefits of using familiar tools and workflows to search remote data. This enhanced integration provides the a
Run scripts
Export and import it from another computer.
The Default Programs Control Panel applet

23. What do you do if a computer is missing the data recovery agent certificate for the EFS recovery agent?
Increase the SOA refresh interval parameter.
Updates the master boot code for hard disk partitions to switch between BOOTMGR and NTLDR. You can use this tool to restore the boot sector on your computer. This tool replaces FixFAT and FixNTFS.
Export and import it from another computer.
Forward to another DNS server

24. What are Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings for?
They are designed to provide concise and impartial information about the content in computer and video games so consumers - especially parents - can make an informed purchase decision. ESRB ratings have two equal parts: rating symbols suggest age app
It is the authentication header protocol and digitally sign packets but not encrypt them.
Pool Active Directory.
They are in the first 48 bits /48

25. What is AH?
In the registry. To bind to another computer remotly the remote registry service needs to run on the target PC.
The requesting of user authentication prior to connecting to the terminal server. This completes the user aoth before reaching the logon screen making the server more secure. This helps fight Denial of Service attacks - malicious users/software.
The command used to preform an offline defrag. Example: jetpack DHCP.mdb temp.mdb
It is the authentication header protocol and digitally sign packets but not encrypt them.

26. What do you do if the firewall is running on the remote PC?
Use the net sh command to configure the proper ports for remote management.
WPA-Personal (uses a preshared key)
In Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 it enhances the productivity of mobile workers by connecting them seamlessly and more securely to their corporate network any time they have Internet access—without the need to VPN. When your IT department enab
Disable AutoComplete in Internet Explorer

27. What is Optimize for Consistency polling mode do?
Expose a WIM file contents through Windows Explorer. You can run BCDEDIT.EXE against the mounted image to create or modify the image's boot configuration database.
Export and import it from another computer.
A OOBE ready and will be booted into Windows Welcome
The DFS service attempts to keep the domain based namespace highly consistent by polling the pcd emulator after the namespace changes. This bypasses the needing to wait for the ad replication to update the namespace object. This can increase load on

28. What do you provide to Scanstate to prevent certain system settings from being migrated?
It is a advertisement of a service. The record is configured with the service provided - a port number and weight?
It can enable a windows feature on an offline image with the /Enable-Feature option
A processor that supports the hardware virtualization using either the AMD-V or Intel VT options. 256MB of RAM is dedicated to the XP client so the Windows 7 computer should have at least 2GB of overall RAM. Windows XP Mode is only available in Windo
A CONFIG.XML file

29. How do you upgrade windows 7?
All you have to do is purchase an upgrade key from Microsoft or another authorized retailer to unlock those new features.
It pings with IPV6
Through a GPO under Application Control Policies in the Computer Security Settings Node.
By either using WSUS management console (server side targeting) or GPO (client side targeting).

30. What are IPV6 host records in DNS?
It is the Microsoft SMB client for accessing shared network resources
They are AAAA records.
Use the DHCPv6 to obtain both IPV6 addresses and additional configuration settings.
Run: Cscript slmgr.vbs /dl

31. What happens if the router advertisement has the M flag set to 0 but the other staeful configuration (o) flag set to 1?
DHCPv6 obtains additional configuration settigns.
You start by selecting Windows XP Mode from the Windows 7 Start Menu. You can install applications in Windows XP Mode just as you normally would on a physical PC. For example - you can install applications via web - from storage devices - or from phy
Windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate Editions
Enterprise and Ultimate versions. The limitation refers only to the ability to enable protection on a removable storage device. Once BitLocker To Go is added to a storage device - that device can be used normally with any version of Windows 7. It can

32. What does the NEW-PSSESSION powershell applet do?
Problem history but also application installation history.
DNS suffix search lists
Create persistent connections to computers with POWERSHELL
WSUS server configuration information - Metadata describing what each update is for - and general information about clients - updates and interaction.

33. How does DirectAccess work?
One of the tunnels if DirectAccess by using both a computer certificate and user credentials. This tunnel authenticates the user and provides access to intranet resources and application servers.
Yes
It can can forward requests from DHCP clients for ip addresses to a remote DHCP server.
Clients establish an IPsec tunnel for the IPv6 traffic to the DirectAccess server - which acts as a gateway to the intranet. The DirectAccess client establishes two IPsec tunnels: Psec Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) tunnel and IPsec ESP tunnel.

34. What sites support Integrated Windows Authentication?
It pings with IPV6
Only sites added to the local Intranet Zones
For example - you can create rules based on the publisher attribute that is persistent through updates - or you can create rules for a specific version of a file.
It improves performance

35. How can you delete route table entries?
Use the route delete command.
Use IPCONFIG or Status Details for the Network Connection.
The requesting of user authentication prior to connecting to the terminal server. This completes the user aoth before reaching the logon screen making the server more secure. This helps fight Denial of Service attacks - malicious users/software.
Windows Aero was revised to be more touch-friendly.

36. What are soft disk quotas?
The DHCP server will ping an ip address before assigning it.
By either using WSUS management console (server side targeting) or GPO (client side targeting).
They are monitored but not enforced. Users can exced there quota limit.
A file that can be used to perform FQDN name resolution in the absence of a DNS server.

37. What is the command to configure the preferred DNS server?
Streamline and simplify user state migration during large deployments of Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. USMT captures user accounts - user files - operating system settings - and application settings - and then migrates them to a new
WPA2 and 802.1x but require EAP-TLS to be enable.
You need to specify the files on both command lines using the /i option. Unlike previous versions of USMT - the .xml files are not copied to the store. Because ScanState and LoadState need the .xml files to control the migration - you should specify
Netsh set dnsserver. Example: netsh interface ipv4 set dnsserver name="Local Area Connection" source=static address=192.168.0.100

38. What OSs can IPV6 be uninstalled?
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
Does not
Windows XP and Server 2003.
Backups of the full system including all critical volumes (volumes that contain operating system state).

39. How do you create a subscription?
Scan through the %WinDir%WindowsUpdate.log (ie. C:WindowsWindowsUpdate.log) file.
Default Programs Control Panel applet
Tools adds out-of-box drivers to a booted Windows PE image. It takes one or more driver .inf files as inputs.
Using wecutil -cs in an xml file.

40. What command is used to view the network monitor via command line?
NMCAP. You can initiate a packet capture and make a .cap file to replay later. It allows you to accept a .cap files as input useful in parsing traffic by different ports or ip address. Example: NMCap /inputcapture test.cap /capture IPV4.Address ==10.
For example - you can create rules based on the publisher attribute that is persistent through updates - or you can create rules for a specific version of a file.
Backups of the full system including all critical volumes (volumes that contain operating system state).
Use the Programs and Features Control Panel applet to

41. How do you verify that an Auto Update Client is connecting to its WSUS Server?
DHCPv6 obtains additional configuration settigns.
Scan through the %WinDir%WindowsUpdate.log (ie. C:WindowsWindowsUpdate.log) file.
Se a capture filter based on the mac address of the problem PC.
By caching reads to remote files over a slow network in the Offline Files (CSC) cache. Subsequent reads to the same file are then satisfied from the client (cache) after verifying the integrity of the cached copy.

42. What is the responsible person on a SOA records field?
an email address where the @ is replaced with a period.
At the volume level - not the drive level.
You can add more space to existing primary partitions and logical drives by extending them into adjacent unallocated space on the same disk. To extend a basic volume - it must be raw or formatted with the NTFS file system.
On the zone file of the DNS server in the DNS manager.

43. How can you secure file transfers across a network?
DHCP server cannot assign an ip address
Sett up a priority for the preferred smtp server.
Can be used to create virtual hard disks
Either by placing data on a web server and enforcing ssl to be used to download or by using IPSEC on a file share.

44. How does a autoconfiguration router or DHCP assign a IPV6 address (after the Local Link Address)?
Only sites added to the local Intranet Zones
Modify the PE image using DISM by adding the WINPE-Scripting package to BOOT.WIM
Default Programs Control Panel applet
First the local link address sends a router discovery packet (Router Solicitation message). If the router request is received then a Public address corrosponding to the global or unique local address prefix in the message.

45. What must you do if you have a static ip address assigned?
Netsh set dnsserver. Example: netsh interface ipv4 set dnsserver name="Local Area Connection" source=static address=192.168.0.100
Verify that they are not within the scope of the dynamically assigned DHCP addresses.
A OOBE ready and will be booted into Windows Welcome
Add an AD integrated zone

46. What does "wbdadmin -startrecovery -version" do?
Specified the version identifer of the back to recover in MM?DD/YYYY-HH:MM format. If the version is unknown wdadmin will get the version.
Used to control power settings and configure computers to default to Hibernate or Standby modes. For example - running Powercfg.exe -energy will analyze the computer for energy efficiency.
Modify/Create a GPO
For the drive that Windows is installed on. System protection can only be turned on for drives that are formatted using the NTFS file system.

47. What is Client for Microsoft Networks?
It is the Microsoft SMB client for accessing shared network resources
It is the max size is expressed in megabytes.
It is the authentication header protocol and digitally sign packets but not encrypt them.
Use WPA with AES encryption. WPA-Personal requires a preshared key and WPA-Enterprise uses Radius Authentication.

48. Can users can share encrypted files with another user by giving them permission?
Windows 7 Professional.
You can allow by adding the device vendor's GUID to the allow list in a GPO.
A LAN Router only or a LAN to WAN Router
Yes - This involves picking the user certificate of the user you are sharing the file with. If that user does not already have a preinstalled certificate - then have them logon and encrypt a file for the first time and EFS will autogenerate a new cer

49. What is the default Install image from a Windows 7 Setup DVD?
A OOBE ready and will be booted into Windows Welcome
The DFS service attempts to keep the domain based namespace highly consistent by polling the pcd emulator after the namespace changes. This bypasses the needing to wait for the ad replication to update the namespace object. This can increase load on
Problem Steps Recorder in the Windows 7 operating system is a feature that enables users to record their interactions with an application and provide a detailed screen-by-screen view with accompanying information including mouse clicks and keyboard i
You need to specify the files on both command lines using the /i option. Unlike previous versions of USMT - the .xml files are not copied to the store. Because ScanState and LoadState need the .xml files to control the migration - you should specify

50. Why would you deploy an application compatibility database across multiple computers?
Anew vpn protocol that uses SSL (port 443) for encryption.
So you can use a system management solution - such as Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - to deliver the database to multiple computers and then use the SDBInst.exe command-line tool to install the database. The SDBInst command-line
They are written in XML and be created using the Windows System Image Manager or a text editor like notepad.
A new Microsoft proprietary file system supported in Windows 7 which is intended for flash drives but often called FAT64 - limit of 264 bytes (16 Exabytes).